Word: hulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Secretary Hull speaks on international politics, as he did yesterday, his remarks tend to fall into a certain set pattern--one characterized by generality and vague idealism, but withal imbued with optimism. This note of optimism is refreshing. However clearly the facts may point to continued economic nationalism, however loudly self-designated "realists" may proclaim the inevitability of war, there remains in every rational person the hope that civilization may yet be constrained from committing suicide; and it is encouraging to hear a man in public office expressing that hope...
Chaotic terror in Palestine-politely called "serious deterioration" by British statesmen-moved U.S. bigwigs last week far more than Czechoslovakia's unhappy fate did three weeks ago. Secretary of State Cordell Hull promised to consult Britain on Palestine's future...
...bumptious rumor that Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) is really Matilda Wutzki, a Russian-born Jewess. Facts are: Frances Perkins is a Protestant Bostonian whose forbears settled in New England before 1680. Her lifelong interest in social welfare led her to Chicago's Hull House, introduced her to her husband, then secretary to New York's reform Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Neither she nor her husband has ever been a genuine mill worker...
...Cabinet met in special session at the White House to listen to Prime Minister Chamberlain's moving broadcast to the Empire the third day after his discouraged return from Godesberg. It came to them over a small, portable radio placed on the table between President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull...
This last was too much for chunky little Ambassador Dieckhoff, who trotted to the State Department to protest to Secretary Hull. He pointed out that Germany has done all it can do by forbidding its own nationals to join the Bund. "Un-officially," Embassy Counselor Dr. Hans Thomsen called Witness Metcalfe untrustworthy. Counselor Thomsen asked why the Dies committee did not call Führer Kuhn to testify...